The GOP is interested now maybe because they no longer fear the wrath of a lame duck President with the opposition party ready to call him on anything.  Yet, Tony Snow (and ergo, the White House) still doesn't get it, calling any questions about Gonzo's handling of this fiasco "partisan politics" and the "President wants to avoid partisan fishing" and a "media spectacle."  

The GOP is the definer of "partisan politics." After twelve years of partisan politics and the political farce of a partisan impeachment of President Clinton that was doomed to failure from long before its House vote, the GOP wanted "media spectacle" then because the GOP had the House vote for force a meaningless trial that mocked the Presidency for the whole world to see.

Whether Gonzales lied to the people, whether Justice in America is for sale at the prosecution level, whether Gonzales is an Attorney General or George Bush's personal aide, doing Karl Rove's political bidding, is a far more important question to the ideal of Equal Justice Under the Law. Or so it says on the Supreme Court building.

More pointedly, John Adams wrote in 1774 that we should have "A government of laws, and not of men." In this decade, the Administration has had it backwards, preferring "a government of men, not of laws," acting like a petulent child when questioned.

Maybe, just maybe, the GOP in Congress has figured out that they don't want to be on this sinking ship. As mariners say, get as far away from it as you can so it doesn't suck you down with it.